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Emotional Distress Damages in an Injury Case
Start here to get an understanding of the role that emotional harm can play in an injury claim.
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Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress Claims (NIED)
How an NIED claim works -- what you need to prove, and the kind of compensation you can expect.
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How to Prove Pain and Suffering in an Injury Case
There's no foolproof formula, but there are ways to come up with a dollar amount.
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Are You Entitled to Damages for Mental Anguish?
Mental anguish is an element of non-economic damages usually sought in personal injury cases, medical malpractice and sometimes defamation cases. Generally, "mental anguish" translates to certain types of suffering that may include distress, anxiety, fright, depression, grief, or trauma.
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Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress (IIED)
An in-depth look at the intentional tort of IIED, and how these injury cases work.
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Third Party Claim for Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress (NIED)
As a personal injury attorney in San Francisco, CA, I am constantly in contact with individuals who were involved in an accident of some sort. It may have been a motorcycle accident or a pedestrian accident. There are also...
Emotional Distress Claims
In some types of injury cases, the focus is on the emotional harm suffered by the claimant or plaintiff. There are recognized causes of action that apply when a wrongdoer's intentional or negligent conduct causes emotional distress, but the person claiming the harm must prove a number of key elements. And in most injury cases -- slips and falls, traffic accidents, and more -- the claimant's pain and suffering is a component of recoverable damages.
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